Soccer Training: Enhance Skills and Physical Fitness
Developing Expressive Qualities of the Body
1) Understanding and Developing Body Awareness:
- Develop a working knowledge of our corporeality (body awareness).
- Enhance the development of our social relations and creativity.
- Improve skills with geometric figures, mirrors, imaginary objects, imitation, statues, slow motion, changes of pace, controlled and uncontrolled falls, greetings, facial expressions, and sounds.
Key Physical Attributes for Soccer
2) Essential Physical Qualities:
- Resistance: Needed to
Understanding Physical Fitness and Training Methods
Physical Condition
Physical Condition: The ability to perform daily work with force and efficiency, delaying the onset of fatigue, minimizing energy expenditure, and preventing injuries. It depends on several factors: the individual’s age, the condition of their organs, nervous system function, individual personality, and training history.
Training Systems
1. Natural System
Performing physical activities in nature, taking advantage of the physical characteristics of the environment (roads, inclines,
Read MoreClassification of Sports and Ball Techniques
Classification of Sports
Sports can be classified based on the interaction between athletes:
- Sports without Cooperation or Opposition: The athlete participates alone, aiming to surpass personal bests or records set by others, rather than direct competition. Examples include athletics races and skiing.
- Sports with Opposition without Cooperation: The athlete competes directly against a single opponent. Examples include wrestling and tennis.
- Sports with Cooperation without Opposition: A group of athletes
Joints, Ligaments, and Bone Anatomy: A Comprehensive Review
Joint Types
Joint Types:
- Synarthrosis: Exhibits minimal mobility due to dense fibrous tissue. Example: skull sutures.
- Amphiarthrosis: Allows limited movement and elasticity due to a higher fiber content. Movement depends on the fiber arrangement. Example: intervertebral discs.
- Diarthro-Amphiarthrosis: Permits slight mobility and fixation. Example: sacroiliac joint (sacrum and innominate).
- Diarthrosis: Highly mobile joints with liquefied tissue and a fibrous joint capsule. Example: knee joint, containing
Archaic and Classical Greek Sculpture: Evolution
Archaic Period
The Archaic Period is one of the first moments that characterized Greek sculpture. It shows a style relating to the Oriental representative systems:
- Figures adopt closed forms, and geometry dominates. Frontalism, statism, symmetry, and stiffness are present.
- Movement is limited to one leg forward, and forms are unnatural and angular.
- Simplification is rigid and geometric. Hair forms almond shapes, and eyes are parallel lines.
- Faces are inexpressive and without individualization, with
Infant Reflexes, Motor Skills, and Development Stages
Unit 3: Primary Reflexes
Previous step of the voluntary motor activity and movements.
Automatic movements that happen after a specific stimulus in the first months of birth.
In a newborn baby, they are produced in the sub cortex, because of the unfinished development of the brain.
Useful to identify normal brain activity (no MND).
Their main aim is to protect child’s life.
Children need time to take control over the reflexes.
Types of Primary Reflexes:
- Rooting: The baby will turn his or her head and open